annnd back to work it is.

i took a real  nice week off to visit my sister and her family in texas. 

it was such a lovely time which i will blog about as soon as time permits but for now i will just love mormon.org chat fest! or brynne and grace chat fest..depending on how you look at it.

this really has nothing to do with anything but sometimes i stay with girlfriend jacquie and walk to work because it is so close. seeing those mountains and pretty temple is such a nice start to the day and
 i just really enjoy that walk! i'm happy to have it in my life again.

i'm also happy that one day everyone i talked to was named bob. 

and moderating mormon.org profiles like this that make me smile. 

.."hi, i'm W A and i love missionaries!"

love it.

hey everybody! it is this girl's birthday!

happy birthday to this girl! my sister! kimmy!
(i really appreciated this photo of her - just being super mom/babysitter
and loving her life all at the same time haha)

kimmy is my sister who is closest to me in age. on this day she turns 31 and i just wanted to show her a little birthday blog love since i am in texas and cannot participate in any of her birthday festivities on this very special day (special = extra discounts for black friday!). i also do not have access to my computer so i would like to thank fb for these photos and apologize for not coming up with some never before seen pictures, those are always the best but these will definitely do. 

anyway. i'm obsessed with the picture of us above. 

just going on that ride over and over again and look how she is just holding on to my face so lovingly! she has always been such a nice sister to me, even when i was just a tiny lady. 

and as a side note: just to fast forward like 20 years we still to this day love lagoon together

i really enjoy this picture of us..just minutes before i became a missionary we were still dancing and loving life together as usual. never a dull moment with kim around!

  aaaand she wrote me almost every week of my mission! that = love.
(and this picture of me = the worst)

she watched out for me when i was little, let me hang out with her and all her friends when i was a little older, never forgot about me on my mission, and still cares and is always so interested in my life. she also always leaves nice comments on my blog and laughs at all my jokes! which is a real plu
i'm so grateful she is my sister!

happy birthday kimmy kay kay! love you! 

i bring to you..

the white party.

                    

(melissa wins for taking the nicest picture of us maybe ever!)

i feel like the pictures speak for themselves. white party = magical.

 it was so fun to dress up a bit and just have a lovely time with lovely friends. 

this party was an absolute delight and i was so thrilled we made the cut this year!

..so if this picture looks a little weird it is just because i wanted a picture of just the two of them but there wasn't one,
 so i had to make one myself 

kalie and melissa did a wonderful job putting it all together and i am always amazed at kalie's mad party skills. i don't know why i thought it was a good idea not to bring my camera with me so i'm really glad melissa had hers and let me use it to take a few of these photos above! i'm also glad that two months later i finally went and got them from her and i'm finally posting them in november.

yay for nice friends and nice dinner parties!

today i met baby olive

 best friend emily (sainsbury) had her baby last week! 

so i headed over there today to a. meet her and b. photograph her

she is the sweetest.

 it was so nice to spend some quality time with emily and her little family! 

aaaand now i must stop procrastinating and get cracking on my long

 thesethingsmusthappenbeforeigototexas list because i realized i am going there so soon!

..hence doing the list on a saturday night haha

sometimes i hate driving in the snow.

so i opted to just go home after spending all day at my sisters house tending my babies 

(and then having to stay and watch the office, modern family, and sister wives haha)

i wanted to review november 2010 and while doing so i found these two gems:

love roommate breakfast. love footie pj's. love these girls. 

weird that this was a year ago.

that's all i really wanted to say. reunion soon?

yet another folder on my desktop of random things.

i think this happens when i feel like the photos are ugly haha. 

BUT these are things worth remembering and i'm trying to clean off my desktop so i bring to you ugly pictures of nice things that happened in october:

ryan sent me this picture one day and i died laughing. 

only he would go hang out at a pet store hahaha

we helped my dad cut down some of a tree

i was getting some pictures off my mom's camera and i found this gem.

i have no idea what is happening but apparently kam and korb are NOT happy about it.

i'm so grateful goldfish are made with smiles.

one day i ate all of jacquie's oh's so i bought her another box.

and added a sweet note of course.

 this is my favorite tree on the provo temple grounds. 

best red and the leaves were really good at staying on (look at the one next to it!) except for a week later it was completely barren and i almost cried. or maybe i did? i can't remember. 

ryan and i went and saw warren miller's newest skiing/snowboarding film. 

it was AWESOME.

then i went and saw ryan play with nik

he did great as usual

and look who joined me! ritchard, rachel holt (you can see her sleeve), austin beck, and his awkward date! it was such a nice mhs reunion. i loved having friends and not having to sit by myself!

  i also loved watching this mom (on the left in the picture above) rock out to the girl singing.

i realllly hope she is just her #1 fan and they don't know each other at all.

i guess i put all these halloween pictures in the wrong folder hahaha. whoops! 

the ones above would be us getting our costumes an hour before my family party started.

we were beyond thrilled to find that baby lion costume for two dollars!

i love how much bigger buddy is than max. and ryan just being a true animal trainer!

my sister is a genius, instead of carving pumpkins they just shove these mr. potato head parts into it! 

i was obsessed.

so remember that coupon i gave ryan to go to the halloween cruise? well it happened.

 there were a few pumpkins as promised 

 and the lights reflecting off the water was a nice touch.

our guide kept saying crazy things and then recited the longest poem/story? in the world but being on the water in the nighttime was really nice. definitely only worth it if you get discount tickets haha

well. that was very random. oh! and the photos from my nephews game were in this folder so i just added them to this post in case anyone/my sister becky wanted to know.